Reading Contemporary Picturebooks takes a look at one of the most vibrant branches of children's literature - the modern picturebook. This exciting new book tak

Despite being a source of continuing interest to educational scholars, research into the literary understanding of elementary school students has emphasized wri

Now in its second edition, this book explores a great variety of genres and formats of young adult literature while placing special emphasis on contemporary wor

"This is an enriched reference guide for picture books published by Canadian houses between 2017-2019. Chapters cover a brief history of picture books, key them

This book offers new descriptions of the visual strand of meaning in picture book narratives as a way of furthering the project of 'multimodal' discourse analys